Last week, the three services - Army, Navy and the Air Force - had issued an open signal to servicemen informing them about the implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission being kept in abeyance till anomalies are addressed.

GRIEVANCES OF THE FORCES

The major grievances of the forces include not being allowed non-functional upgrade (NFU) available to the bureaucracts. NFU allows bureaucrats who have been passed over to get a higher pay as soon as their batchmates make it to the next rank and a pay matrix that is separate from the civilians.

The government has formed an anomalies commission to look to into these issues. The military gets pension when no other service gets pension anymore, besides this, the military has been given One Rank One Pension (OROP), which is not available to any other service.

Sources say that government employees are likely to get a pay hike between 15-20 per cent over their current compensation.

Over 98.4 lakh government employees will be impacted by the Seventh Pay Commission recommendations. This figure includes 52 lakh pensioners.

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